End of the Sex Abuse Crisis

The conversation about Catholicism and Pope Francis is about to be dominated by the topics of the environment and climate change, thanks to tomorrowâ??s (official; there have been leaks) release of the pontiffâ??s ecological encyclical, Laudato Si. But let me sneak in a belated comment on last weekâ??s news that the Vatican is setting up a tribunal to handle accusations of negligence by bishops in sex abuse cases, with coincided, probably not coincidentally, with the resignations of the archbishop of Minneapolis-St. Paul and his auxiliary over their handling of a now-defrocked predator priest.